Table of Contents
Towards a definition of transnationalism : introductory remarks and research questions ; Transnationalism : a new analytic framework for understanding migration / Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch, Cristina Blanc-Szanton -- Making sense of settlement : class transformation, cultural struggle, and transnationalism among Mexican migrants in the United States / Roger Rouse -- Investing or going home? A transnational strategy among Indian immigrants in the United States / Johanna Lessinger -- Gender, class, and migration in the Dominican Republic : women's experiences in a transnational community / Eugenia Georges -- Transnationalism in the construct of Haitian migrants' racial categories of identity in New York City / Carolle Charles -- Limits to cultural accumulation : Chinese capitalists on the American Pacific Rim / Aihwa Ong -- Multiple layers of time and space : the construction of class, ethnicity, and nationalism among Portuguese immigrants / Bela Feldman-Bianco -- Implications of transnational migration for nationalism : the Caribbean example / Rosina Wiltshire.